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Brampton, Ontario

Provided operational strategic leadership as well as responsibility for daily operation of the production facility including but not limited to manufacturing, production control, employee engagement, safety performance, logistics, maintenance, industrial process engineering, and monitoring of performance and expense tracking.Responsibilities:• Ensure consistently, high level of product quality in manufactured edgebanding• Direct supervisors, managers in improving and maintaining production efficiencies, controlling waste and expense costs• Cost control and taking action when negative manufacturing variances occur • Oversee scheduling of the plant production and react to changes as necessary in capacity and labour • Establish, maintain and adjust inventory levels as required to meet customer demand and inventory plan• Ensure adequate stock levels are in place through prebuild, manufacturing plan and procurement • Direct continuous improvement activities to reduce costs throughout facility with focus on lean initiatives and with emphasis reducing waste, increasing performance and employee engagement • Create and maintain a culture of safety, engagement, performance, and continuous improvement • Develop and execute annual Capex plan targeting increased plant performance and cost reduction• Contribute to development of annual operational expense budget • Conduct performance management reviews - employee communication, evaluation and feed back

Directed team in daily operation of under performing manufacturing plant including HR, purchasing, customer service, inventory control, scheduling and manufacturing.• Increased plant production volume over PY.• Reduced manufacturing footprint by 30% through CI and lean initiatives • Successfully ratified collective bargaining agreement under plan.• Improved on time delivery to 97% in 6 months, improving raw inventory position and production scheduling at plant level. • Increased core work force while maintaining labor cost by reducing reliance on employment agencies and associated fees.• Exceeded plant sales targets while turning operation to profitable income position.

Oversaw the daily operations, manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, planning and scheduling, procurement, manufacturing engineering, quality and continuous improvement with a focused team of 8 direct reports and >150 production associates Developed, executed and managed departmental budgets aligned with sales forecasts and corporate objectives. • Transformed an underperforming entrepreneurial manufacturing operation to one of accountability, professionally managed employing best practices and by implanting an employee empowered culture. • Directed major upgrade and staffing of speaker cabinet finishing process, resulting in cost reduction in rework while increasing departmental throughput. • Initiated closure of US satellite distribution center eliminating warehouse and freight expense.• Spearheaded the consolidation of the US manufacturing operation into Canadian manufacturing facility without compromising product quality, distribution with significant reduction in operational expense.• Instituted daily departmental reporting and metrics to accurately monitor costs, efficiencies and quality.• Increased plant manufacturing efficiencies over 20%.

Responsible to provide support to manufacturing including, process engineering, process management, equipment acquisition and training. • Reorganized 225k sq. ft. Canadian manufacturing plant using lean principles, opening space to allow for the seamless integration of a US manufacturing operation.• Established and deployed Lean program at the facility, instructed production management, engineering, and quality teams on Lean methodology, 5S, standard work, VSM, and Kaizen• Streamlined and converted 17 manufacturing work centers in ten months to cellular manufacturing format.• Managed and directed continuous improvement activity driving expense reduction in first year.

Stoney Creek, Ontario

Managed and mentored a cohesive well focused team of 12 staff and 60-70 shop floor associates. Accountable for plant safety, production, shipping, production planning, quality, productivity, adherence to budget, lean and project development / implementation.• Successfully turned around a unionized underperforming manufacturing plant in less than 12 months achieving excellence award for achieving one of the top performing plant in second year.• Improved Shipping on Time from 85% to 98% • Developed and managed plant operational expense budget while reducing costs year over year.• Reduced plant inventory levels first year with implementation of inventory controls, bar code transaction, cycle counting, material rationalization and shop floor system reporting.• Instituted health and safety initiatives reducing workplace injuries and related costs achieving >3.0 years without a lost time injury.• Increased commercial/industrial production throughput utilizing best practice and lean mythologies.

Stoney Creek, Ontairo

Supported operational teams in multiple manufacturing facilities with project management, equipment and tooling acquisition, cost reduction, process improvement, maintenance and continuous improvement support. • Championed cost reduction programs through CI and Kaizen achieving significant reduction in expenses• Managed and executed annual CAPEX plans for all Canadian operations. • Designed and commissioned chimney insulation processes that reduced costs by over >$540k annually.• Implemented Lean in newly acquired acquisition resulting reduction in manufacturing footprint, allowing for the consolidation of US commercial vent manufacturing in the Canadian facility.

Hamilton, Ontario